Start of list level support in Writer paragraph styles

A paragraph might have an associated list in Writer and that list can have multiple levels. This is direct formatting. When it comes to paragraph styles, referring to a list was already possible, but defining a custom list level was not.

Loosing this information in Word documents was quite annoying, and it turned out that ODF also has markup for this, just LibreOffice didn’t implement it.

This work is currently done for the document model, scripting API and file filters: style previews & UI still needs finishing.

Writer can at the moment preserve list level info from ODT and DOCX files. Here is how a file written by Writer looks like in Word:

You can see that the style preview in Word takes the list level into account. Doing the same and applying the list level as part of applying the paragraph style on the Writer UI is still future work.

Thanks to Justin Luth who did the follow-up work to adapt the DOC filter accordingly, and also doing other related fixes.

If you would like to know a bit more about how this works, continue reading… :-)

Collabora intends to continue supporting and contributing to LibreOffice, the code is merged so we expect all of this work will be available in TDF’s next release (7.3).